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Are debug-build-only UI controls a bad practice?
Often, to simplify testing, I add UI controls that are only visible and enabled in debug build only. Or prepopulate mandatory input fields in debug build. Is this a bad practice? Assuming the release ...
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Should I put stack trace in error files and halt my app with user friendly error [closed]
In my earlier project I wrote an app that is used in-house. My usual practice is to capture errors/exceptions from different classes and threads and put them in different log files corresponding to ...
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Using System.err.println() for debugging in Java
System.err
The "standard" error output stream. This stream is already open and
ready to accept output data. Typically this stream corresponds to
display output or another output destination ...
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What's the best way to avoid catastrophe caused by negligence? [duplicate]
I have been a programmer for almost 1 year.
As an ADHD adult, naturally I don't have the same strength of attention on ordinary stuffs as my colleagues do.
And I find the catastrophe made by me are ...
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Naming: objectAction or actionObject? [closed]
The question, Stored procedure Naming conventions?, and Joel's excellent Making Wrong Code Look Wrong article come closest to addressing my question, but I'm looking for a more general set of criteria ...
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Writing Large Portions Of Code Then Debugging?
Lately I have been writing a game engine, and I have been writing a lot of "foundation stuff" (standard interfaces, modules, a message system ect.), but I have noticed a pattern, a lot of the stuff is ...
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How common are “bandage” fixes? [closed]
Imagine the following scenario:
You've detected that your (or someone else's) program has a bug - a function produces the wrong result when given a particular input. You examine the code and can't ...
